Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-090"
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"Mr President, the text of the Reform Treaty agreed at the Lisbon Summit is clear progress, a step forward in the history of European integration – I would like to call it European unification. Therefore, it should be greeted with satisfaction.
Nonetheless, however important this step might be, it is not the last one. In the short term it is crucial to see the Treaty ratified by all the 27 Member States. It should now be clear to everybody that there was no plan B and there is no plan C. After ratification we must continue, in the medium and long term, with the necessary reforms and policies until a complete reconciliation between Europe’s history and geography is achieved within the framework of European transnational democracy.
In this moment of relief, it is also crucial to get rid of any democratic hypocrisy and demagogy and admit that, in this complex world, political management requires – more than ever – a professional competence which could not be the subject of referendums. We must ask the people to decide, by ‘yes’ or ‘no’, on principles and fundamentals, not on sophisticated technicalities and complicated compromises. For the rest, we must observe the principle of the non-imperative mandate.
On the other hand, we must also admit that the progress we are celebrating today was achieved at the expense of transparency and sincerity. The gap between peoples and us, the political leaders, after Lisbon remains at least as big as before. Until we close this gap, we should keep the bottles of champagne unopened."@en1
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